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Philippines: Radio host survives assassination attempt

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the recent assassination attempt made against Zamzamin Ampatuan, host of the daily news and cultural affairs program “Radio Kalimudan,” broadcast by the Roman Catholic radio station dxMS in Cotabato City on the island of Mindanao.

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Weekly faces legal harassment after exposing state corruption

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed by your government’s apparent efforts to intimidate, bankrupt, and ultimately silence the Almaty independent weekly Nachnem s Ponedelnika in response to its revelations of alleged official corruption.

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Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes your government’s decision to lift the prior censorship requirement for foreign media, but is deeply disturbed that the censorship regulations remain in place and that restrictions on local media continue.

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Azerbaijan: Police brutalize local journalists

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the recent police assault on two journalists from the Baku daily Bu gun and by the subsequent raid on the newspaper’s editorial office. This is the second incident during the past month in which Azeri police have attacked local journalists, suggesting a pattern of gross abuse of authority and reckless disregard for press freedom in your country.

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Azerbaijan: Police brutalize local journalists

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the recent police assault on two journalists from the Baku daily Bu gun and by the subsequent raid on the newspaper’s editorial office. This is the second incident during the past month in which Azeri police have attacked local journalists, suggesting a pattern of gross abuse of authority and reckless disregard for press freedom in your country.

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Palestine: Open season on broadcast media

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to protest recent attempts by the Palestinian National Authority to silence private broadcast media in the West Bank.

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King amnesties convicted journalists

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in MOROCCO New York, June 2, 2000 — Morocco’s King Muhammad VI issued a royal pardon last Sunday annulling the prison sentences and other penalties recently imposed on two journalists for allegedly libeling Foreign Minister Muhammad Benaissa, the Committee to Protect Journalists has learned.

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Colombia: Reporter kidnapped, tortured after covering prison massacre

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by the May 25 kidnapping and torture of Jineth Bedoya Lima, a reporter with the Bogotá-based daily El Espectador. We call on Your Excellency to ensure that the incident is fully investigated, and the guilty parties punished.

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Tunisia: London-based journalist on hunger strike to protest government travel ban against his family

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to express its deep concern for Noureddine Aouididi, a London-based Tunisian journalist whose family has been denied the right to travel outside Tunisia. We fear that these restrictions have been imposed in reprisal for Aouididi’s journalistic work.

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Peru: Journalist kidnapped, beaten, and tortured

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the kidnapping and torture of journalist Fabián Salazar Olivares. Salazar was attacked and brutally tortured on May 24, just after receiving materials with allegedly damaging information about high-level officials from Your Excellency’s administration, according to statements that Salazar has made to the press in Peru.

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